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chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

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Soiled Meat
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious by this car park corpse

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chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

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Soiled Meat

Trin Tragula posted:

Henry V [...] a very dull play.

condolences on your terrible opnion

chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

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cheerfullydrab posted:

I'm still saying it's a good movie, but this made me laugh.

it's actually very bad

like unbelievably bad

chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

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Soiled Meat
sorry I don't watch anime

chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

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Soiled Meat
prospero is a sorcerer capable of calling upon the primal forces of the elements and scattering an entire fleet in a storm of his own conjuring

he can magic up a blouse dude

chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

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TychoCelchuuu posted:

Ariel's the one who scatters the fleet in the storm. Prospero just says "hey Ariel, do a thing."

yeah but this stems from the renaissance conception of what a sorcerer is. the harry potter-dresden style of wizard, whose power is inborn, is fairly modern. for contemporary audience, one's power as a sorcerer stemmed from one's ability to call up and control elemental spirits (or demons). ariel being able to wreck the fleet is a reflection of prospero's power, even if it doesn't seem that way to us now bc of what we expect magic users to be like

Mr. Squishy posted:

Hey Ariel, make a shirt.

there's also this yeah

chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

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last time i saw the tempest it had what's his face from law and order playing prospero

e: sam waterston

chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

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Behemuff posted:

Well I was hoping for a pointer towards something a little less monolithic, or some primer. But thanks for being a patronising oval office :)

it's the right answer to your question dude

calm down

chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

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Soiled Meat
if you were a proper gent you'd have written about the all-nude version of the tempest being performed in central park this summer

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chernobyl kinsman
Mar 18, 2007

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the smug face suggests you're kidding but all three parts of henry vi really are agonisingly boring

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